Leaf compensatory growth as a tolerance strategy to resist herbivory in Pancratium sickenbergeri

Plant Ecology

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-26

  Ruiz R, Natalia ^a,b   Ward, David ^a,c   Saltz, David ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Gazelles; Geophyte; Negev desert; Plant herbivore interactions

Indexed keywords

CLIPPING; COMPENSATION; HERBIVORY; LEAF; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; TOLERANCE; UNGULATE;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

AMARYLLIDACEAE; GAZELLA; GAZELLA DORCAS; HESPEROCALLIS; LILIUM; PANCRATIUM SICKENBERGERI;

EID: 48449096968     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9381-y     Document Type: Article

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